Iowa City Startup Apollo refocuses platform to help tackle coronavirus

Guest post by Jon Lensing.

Apollo is a health-tech based startup founded by medical students from the University of Iowa. Our mission is to improve community health through the accelerated delivery of patient services. Using our online platform, hospitals can post jobs, and providers can create profiles.

Currently, we have repurposed our platform to help aid hospitals requiring increased amounts of providers due to COVID-19 by:

Hosting job needs of hospitals

Centralizing availability of medical providers

Connecting providers to open positions/hospitals

With the growing number of COVID-19 cases across the US, we have to prepare for provider shortages. Apollo increases the transferability of providers and improves the speed of staffing. For the next four weeks, Apollo will waive all fees associated with the use of our platform.

The Governor has already been made aware of the platform, and we are trying to raise hospital and physician awareness that this service is available to them. Apollo is trying to do our part to help better protect the health of Iowa.